On this episode of The Geopolitical Report, we counter the establishment’s narrative on the conflict in Syria and the flashpoint of Daraa, a town near the Syria-Jordan border where the CIA, working with the Muslim Brotherhood, attacked police and set the stage for a conflict that has so far claimed the lives of more than 400,000 Syrians. The proxy war is designed to take down a secular government and replace it with a Salafist principality controlled by the Brotherhood, a longtime CIA and British intelligence asset.

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1- In a presentation in Kennedy college, Harvard University, The two major OTPOR leaders, Popovic and Djenovic said that they were targeting Syria since 2003, and that their first revolution against Syria was carried out in Lebanon in 2006 and managed to force the Syrian army out of Lebanon, but the victory was incomplete because they did not manage to topple the Syrian Government. The source of this info is the video of this presentation, which was published on youtube on Oct 5, 2011 but was later removed.

2- The estimate you presented on Hama 1982 is inline with the Muslim Brotherhood propaganda. In fact, the entire story of Hama 1982 available online is based on propaganda and lacks factual evidence. The only witness to this “supposed massacre” was Robert Fisk who saw a canon firing a shell outside Hama, and some Syria soldiers saving a starving woman with her child. Other independent estimates talk about 2000 dead in Hama, including 400 muslim brotherhood militants, and the families that the MB gangs have slaughtered while they were in control of parts of the city. The source for this information is declassified US Military Intelligence report about Hama entitled “Muslim Brotherhood Pressure Intensifies”. This report, published by Foreign Policy in 2013, is not available anymore on their website. However, there are other copies on non-official sites easily accessible by a simple search.

3- The Baathists seized power in Syria in 1963, after the separation from Egypt in 1961, not before the union in 1958. The Arab Nationalist officers who supported Nasser and facilitated the union were not Baathists, they were Nasserists. Baath leadership did not have anything to do in the Union with Egypt, but they aligned with it when it happened. I know this from many auto biographies that I have read in Arabic.

4- All the talk about Syria refusing a pipeline is unfounded. This is just a theory. I have not seen any evidence that a pipeline proposal was presented to Syria, and that Syria has rejected it. I believe that there is no logic in refusing a pipeline that would generate benefits to Syria and give Assad some control over the European power supply. Another competing theory is that the Gulf states and their masters would not trust Assad to control a vital pipeline, so they want to get rid of him in order to establish their pipeline. Possibly they do not need the pipeline to go through Syria at all, they can have a shorter pipeline through Jordan and Israel. Maybe all this power geopolitics is just a hoax.

5- I debunked the myth about Daraa children in the 8th episode of my “Myths of the Arab Spring” series. The link is here http://www.alayham.com/node/3718. This is in Arabic, and I can translate it to English if you are interested. In Summary, no kids were arrested or tortured in Daraa.

In a recent interview with Il Giornale, transcribed in English at SANA website http://sana.sy/en/?p=97317 President Assad said clearly that there was no pipeline proposal presented to Syria. He said he thinks they had a plan for two pipelines, but it was not proposed to Syria directly.

This confirms my previous comment that all this rhetoric about rejecting a pipeline proposal is unfounded.